Find and Play the Music You Want with the Best Buy Digital Music Store & Sonos

October 23, 2007 — Best Buy® has announced that the Best Buy Digital Music Store, and Sonos®, Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the digital home, have partnered to provide music lovers with the ultimate wireless jukebox for every room of the house.

The Sonos Digital Music System and the Best Buy Digital Music Store enable music lovers to connect directly to millions of songs and thousands of radio stations without ever installing an application or turning on a computer. By eliminating the time-consuming hassles of downloading or ripping a personal music library, Best Buy Digital Music Store customers can enjoy all the music they want, all over the house, by simply having a broadband connection.

Best Buy customers can now experience this innovation at the more than 600 Best Buy locations that feature a live multi-zone display of the Sonos Digital Music System. A music lover can walk into a Best Buy and with the Sonos Controller, pick a room, search the millions of songs in the song Best Buy Digital Music Store library for their favorite song, and play it. The interactive in-store experience represents Best Buy’s commitment to offering a superior music experience for its customers.

"Our goal is to deliver entertainment to our customers with new and exciting solutions that enhance people’s lives," said Mehrdad Akbar, director of digital music for Best Buy. "The direct integration of the Best Buy Digital Music Store with the Sonos Digital Music System is part of that goal. For people who are passionate about music, this is a solution that will let them get the most out of what digital music has to offer.”

“At Sonos we are dedicated to bringing the joy of multi-room music to as many homes as possible,” said Phil Abram, president & COO, Sonos, Inc. “The combination of the Best Buy Digital Music Store and Sonos delivers an outstanding music experience at home by fully realizing the dream of a giant jukebox where you can find any tune and play it in any room.”

The Best Buy Digital Music Store gives music fans an easy way to enjoy, manage and discover music. Powered by RealNetworks’ Rhapsody® music service, it offers millions of songs from hundreds of genres and more than 100 commercial-free, professionally-programmed radio stations. Music lovers can have unlimited access to all that music at home via Sonos by subscribing to the service for $14.99 per month. With Sonos and the Best Buy Digital Music Store, music lovers can:

1. Quickly find and play any song. Search by artist, album or song and hit play—right from the palm of your hand.
   
2. Discover new music with Artist Radio. Just pick your favorite artist and the Best Buy Digital Music Store creates a radio station with music from that artist as well as similar artists—to play all over the house.
   
3. Built-in music charts. Sonos provides access to music charts of the top 100 songs, artists and albums in hundreds of music genres, making it faster and easier to find and play the most popular music—from the bedroom to the backyard.
   
4. Create an instant music library. When you hear a song that you like, instantly add the song or entire album to your music library— so you can listen again and again.
   

Sonos is the first wireless, multi-room digital music system that lets you play digital music all over your house — and control it from the palm of your hand. With a wireless Sonos Controller, you'll have instant access to millions of songs — including online music and radio services, and your personal digital music collection. And, with Sonos ZonePlayers in the rooms of your choice, you can play the same song in different rooms, or different songs in different rooms! To learn more about Sonos, please visit www.sonos.com.

SOURCE Sonos